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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
*[[1869]] - [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Das Rheingold]]'' debuts in [[Munich]]. *[[1869]] - [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Das Rheingold]]'' debuts in [[Munich]].
-*[[1885]] - [[Lord Randolph Churchill]] makes a speech in [[Ulster]] in opposition to [[Home Rule]] e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".  
-*[[1893]] - The first [[United States|America]]n-built [[automobile]], built by the [[Duryea Brothers]], is displayed. 
-*[[1896]] - [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] surpasses her grandfather [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] as the longest reigning [[British monarchy|monarch]] in [[United Kingdom|British]] history. 
-*[[1908]] - The [[independence]] of [[Bulgaria]] is recognised. 
-*[[1910]] - The [[Duke_of_York's_Picture_House|Duke of York's Cinema]] opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. 
-*[[1919]] - The [[steel strike of 1919]], led by the [[Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers]], begins in [[Pennsylvania]] before spreading across the [[United States]]. 
-*[[1927]] - [[Jack Dempsey]] loses the [[The Long Count Fight|Long Count]] [[boxing]] match to [[Gene Tunney]]. 
-*[[1934]] - An explosion takes place at [[Gresford]] Colliery in [[Wales]], leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers. 
-*[[1937]] - [[Spanish Civil War]]: [[Peña Blanca]] is taken; the end of the [[Battle of El Mazuco]]. 
-*[[1941]] - On [[Jewish]] New Year Day, [[Germany|German]] [[SS]] murder 6,000 [[Jews]] in [[Vinnytsya]], [[Ukraine]]. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 [[Jews]] were executed.  
-*[[1944]] - [[World War II]], [[Red Army]] enters [[Tallinn]]. 
-*[[1951]] - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the [[United States]], a college [[American football|football]] game between [[Duke University|Duke]] and the [[University of Pittsburgh]], is televised on [[NBC]]. 
-*[[1955]] - In [[United Kingdom|Britain]], the television channel [[ITV]] goes [[live television|live]] for the first time. 
-*[[1959]] - In [[Chicago]], air raid sirens are sounded at 10:30 PM for five minutes. This "sent thousands rushing into the streets and caused near panic in almost every section of the city" in fear of the start of a nuclear war, as the [[Chicago Tribune]] later reported. The [[Chicago White Sox]] had just won the American League pennant, their first pennant in 40 years, and city officials had ordered the sounding in celebration. 
-*[[1960]] - The [[Sudanese Republic]] is renamed [[Mali]] after the withdrawal of [[Senegal]] from the [[Mali Federation]]. 
-*[[1964]]- The [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical [[Fiddler on the Roof]] first opens.  
-*[[1965]] - The [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]] between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] over [[Kashmir]] ends after the [[United Nations|UN]] calls for a [[cease-fire]].  
-*[[1970]] - [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]] resigns as [[Prime Minister]] of [[Malaysia]]. 
-*[[1975]] - [[Sara Jane Moore]] tries to assassinate [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], but is foiled by [[Oliver Sipple]]. 
-*[[1979]] - The [[South Atlantic Flash]] or [[Vela Incident]] is observed near [[Bouvet Island]], thought to be a [[nuclear weapons test]]. 
-*[[1980]] - [[Iraq]] [[Iran-Iraq War|invades]] [[Iran]]. 
-*[[1985]] - The [[Plaza Accord]] was signed in [[New York City]]. 
-*[[1987]] - [[Full House]] premiered its pilot episode, [[Our Very First Show (Full House Episode)]], on the [[American Broadcasting Company]] network ([[ABC Studios]]). It aired on the [[ABC Family]] program. 
-*[[1991]] - The [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] are made available to the public for the first time, by the [[Huntington Library]]. 
-*[[1993]] - A [[Transair Georgian Airline Crash (22 September)|Transair Georgian Airlines]] [[Tupolev Tu-154|Tu-154]] is shot down by a missile in [[Sukhumi]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. 
-*[[1995]] - E-3B [[AWACS]] crashed outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed 
-*[[1997]] - [[Bentalha massacre]] in [[Algeria]]; over 200 villagers killed. 
-*[[2003]] - [[David Hempleman-Adams]] becomes the first person to cross the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in an open-air, wicker-basket [[hot air balloon]]. 
-*[[2006]] - The [[F-14 Tomcat]] retires from the [[United States Navy]]. 
-* 2006 - A [[Germany|German]] [[maglev train]] [[2006 Lathen maglev train accident|crashes]], killing 23. 
-* 2006 - [[Hezbollah]] claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut. 
==Births== ==Births==
-<!--- please don't add your friends' birthdays, or your own, or fictional characters to this list --->+*[[1862]] - [[Maurice Barrès]], French writer and provocateur (d. [[1923]])
-*[[1515]] - [[Anne of Cleves]], queen of [[Henry VIII of England]] (d. [[1557]])+
-*[[1547]] - [[Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin]], German philologist and poet (d. [[1590]])+
-*[[1593]] - [[Matthäus Merian]], Swiss engraver (d. [[1650]])+
-*[[1601]] - [[Anne of Austria]], queen of [[Louis XIII of France]] (d. [[1666]])+
-*[[1606]] - [[Li Zicheng]], Chinese rebel (d. [[1645]])+
-*[[1680]] - [[Barthold Heinrich Brockes]], German poet (d. [[1747]])+
-*[[1694]] - [[Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]], English statesman (d. [[1773]])+
-*[[1715]] - [[Jean-Étienne Guettard]], French physician and scientist (d. [[1786]])+
-*[[1717]] - [[Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin]], Swedish astronomer (d. [[1783]])+
-*[[1722]] - [[John Home]], Scottish writer (d. [[1808]])+
-*[[1741]] - [[Peter Simon Pallas]], German zoologist (d. [[1811]])+
-*[[1743]] - [[Quintin Craufurd]], British author (d. [[1819]])+
-*[[1765]] - [[Paolo Ruffini]], Italian mathematician (d. [[1822]])+
-*[[1788]] - [[Theodore Edward Hook]], English author (d. [[1841]])+
-*[[1791]] - [[Michael Faraday]], English scientist (d. [[1867]])+
-*[[1819]] - [[Wilhelm Wattenbach]], German historian (d. [[1897]])+
-*[[1829]] - [[Tự Đức]], [[Emperor of Vietnam]] (d. [[1883]])+
-*[[1875]] - [[Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis]], Lithuanian painter and composer (d. [[1911]])+
-*[[1876]] - [[André Tardieu]], [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. [[1945]])+
-*[[1878]] - [[Yoshida Shigeru]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1967]])+
-*[[1880]] - Dame [[Christabel Pankhurst]], English suffragist (d. [[1958]])+
-*[[1882]] - [[Wilhelm Keitel]], German field marshal (d. [[1946]])+
*[[1885]] - [[Erich von Stroheim]], Austrian-born actor (d. [[1957]]) *[[1885]] - [[Erich von Stroheim]], Austrian-born actor (d. [[1957]])
-* 1885 - [[Ben Chifley]], [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1951]]) 
-*[[1891]] - [[Hans Albers]], German actor and singer (d. [[1960]]) 
*[[1895]] - [[Paul Muni]], Polish-born actor (d. [[1967]]) *[[1895]] - [[Paul Muni]], Polish-born actor (d. [[1967]])
-*[[1896]] - [[Henry Segrave]], British racing driver (d. [[1930]]) 
-*[[1898]] - [[Katherine Alexander]], American actress (d. [[1981]]) 
-*[[1900]] - [[William Spratling]], American silversmith (d. [[1967]]) 
-* 1900 - [[Paul H. Emmett]], American chemical engineer (d. [[1985]]) 
-*[[1901]] - [[Charles B. Huggins]], Canadian-born scientist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1997]]) 
-*[[1902]] - [[John Houseman]], Romanian-born actor (d. [[1988]]) 
-*[[1903]] - [[Joseph Valachi]], American gangster (d. [[1971]]) 
-*[[1904]] - [[Ellen Church]], American [[stewardess]] (d. [[1965]]) 
-*[[1905]] - [[Eugen Sänger]], Austrian aerospace engineer (d. [[1964]]) 
-*[[1907]] - [[Philip Fotheringham-Parker]], British racing driver (d. [[1981]]) 
-*[[1912]] - [[Martha Scott]], American actress (d. [[2003]]) 
-*[[1915]] - [[Arthur Lowe]], British actor (d. [[1982]]) 
-*[[1918]] - [[Hans Scholl]], member of [[The White Rose]] (d. [[1943]]) 
-* 1918 - [[Henryk Szeryng]], Polish-born violinist (d. [[1988]]) 
-*[[1920]] - [[Eric Baker (activist)|Eric Baker]], British human rights activist (d. [[1976]]) 
-* 1920 - [[Bob Lemon]], American baseball player (d. [[2000]]) 
-* 1920 - [[William H. Riker]], American political scientist (d. [[1993]]) 
-*[[1920]] - [[Anders Lassen]], [[Denmark|Danish]] military officer (d. [[1945]])  
-*[[1922]] - [[Chen Ning Yang]], Chinese-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]]  
-*[[1923]] - [[Dannie Abse]], Welsh poet and writer 
-*[[1924]] - [[Charles Keeping]], British illustrator (d. [[1988]]) 
-* 1924 - [[Rosamunde Pilcher]], English novelist 
-*[[1927]] - [[Gordon Astall]], English footballer 
-* 1927 - [[Tommy Lasorda]], American baseball manager 
-*[[1928]] - [[Eric Broadley]], British engineer 
-* 1928 - [[James Lawson]], American minister and civil rights activist 
-*[[1929]] - [[Serge Garant]], French Canadian conductor (d. [[1986]]) 
-*[[1931]] - [[Fay Weldon]], British feminist 
-* 1931 - [[George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie]], British politician (d. [[2003]]) 
-*[[1931]] - [[Manzoor Ahmad]], Pakistani philosopher 
-*[[1932]] - [[Ingemar Johansson]], Swedish boxer 
-*[[1934]] - [[Lute Olson]], American basketball coach 
-*[[1936]] - [[Maurice Evans (footballer)|Maurice Evans]], English footballer and manager (d. [[2000]]) 
-*[[1938]] - [[Gene Mingo]], American football player 
-*[[1939]] - [[Gilbert Earl Patterson|Gilbert E. Patterson]], American minister and presiding bishop of the [[Church of God in Christ]] (d. [[2007]]) 
*[[1940]] - [[Anna Karina]], Danish born actress *[[1940]] - [[Anna Karina]], Danish born actress
-*[[1942]] - [[Dan Baker]], American public address announcer+*[[1946]] - [[King Sunny Adé]], Nigerian singer
-* 1942 - [[David Stern]], American basketball commissioner+*[[1956]] - [[Doug Wimbish]], American bass player
-*[[1943]] - [[Toni Basil]], American singer+
-*[[1946]] - [[King Sunny Ade]], Nigerian singer+
-* 1946 - [[Larry Dierker]], American baseball player and manager+
-*[[1947]] - [[Robert Morace]], American writer+
-*[[1948]] - [[Denis Burke]], Australian politician+
-* 1948 - [[Jim Byrnes (actor)|Jim Byrnes]], American actor and musician+
-*[[1949]] - [[Jim Keith]], American conspiracy theorist and author (d. [[1999]])+
-* 1949 - [[Jim McGinty]], Australian politician+
-*[[1950]] - [[Kirka Babitzin|Kirka]], Finnish singer (d. [[2007]])+
-*[[1951]] - [[David Coverdale]], English singer+
-*[[1952]] - [[Bob Goodlatte]], American politician+
-* 1952 - [[Paul Le Mat]], American actor+
-* 1952 - [[Gary Holton]], English actor and musician (d. [[1985]])+
-*[[1953]] - [[Ségolène Royal]], French politician+
-*[[1953]] - [[Geoff Gilpin]], American author+
-*[[1954]] - [[Shari Belafonte]], American singer+
-* 1954 - [[Randy Lanier]], American racing driver+
-*[[1956]] - [[Debby Boone]], American singer+
-* 1956 - [[Masayuki Suzuki]], Japanese singer ([[Rats & Star]])+
*[[1957]] - [[Nick Cave]], Australian musician *[[1957]] - [[Nick Cave]], Australian musician
-* 1957 - [[Giuseppe Saronni]], Italian cyclist+*[[1964]] - [[Benoît Poelvoorde]], Belgian actor
-*[[1958]] - [[Andrea Bocelli]], Italian tenor+
-* 1958 - [[Neil Cavuto]], American television commentator+
-* 1958 - [[Joan Jett]], American musician+
-*[[1959]] - [[Tai Babilonia]], American figure skater+
-*[[1959]] - [[Pope Michael]], American anti-pope+
-*[[1961]] - [[Scott Baio]], American actor+
-* 1961 - [[Vince Coleman]], American baseball player+
-* 1961 - [[Bonnie Hunt]], American actress+
-* 1961 - [[Catherine Oxenberg]], British actress+
-*[[1962]] - [[Diogo Mainardi]], Brazilian writer+
-*[[1965]] - [[Andy Cairns]], Irish musician+
-* 1965 - [[Tony Drago]], Maltese snooker player+
-*[[1966]] - [[Moustafa Amar]], Egyptian singer+
-* 1966 - [[Stefan Rehn]], Swedish footballer+
-*[[1966]] - [[Mike Richter]], American ice hockey player+
-*[[1967]] - [[Rickard Rydell]], Swedish racing driver+
-* 1967 - [[Félix Savón]], Cuban boxer+
-* 1967 - [[Kim Watkins]], Australian television presenter+
-*[[1969]] - [[Chris Powell]], English footballer+
-* 1969 - [[Matt Sharp]], American musician ([[Weezer]], [[The Rentals]])+
-*[[1970]] - [[Mike Matheny]], American baseball player+
-* 1970 - [[Mystikal]], American rapper+
-* 1970 - [[Rupert Penry-Jones]], English actor+
-* 1970 - [[Emmanuel Petit]], French footballer+
-*[[1971]] - [[Chesney Hawkes]], English singer+
-* 1971 - [[Princess Märtha Louise of Norway]]+
-*[[1974]] - [[Bob Sapp]], American boxer and kickboxer+
-*[[1975]] - [[Ethan Moreau]], Canadian ice hockey player+
-* 1975 - [[Svilen Noev]], Bulgarian singer-songwriter+
-*[[1976]] - [[Ronaldo]], Brazilian footballer+
-*[[1977]] - [[Paul Sculthorpe]], English rugby league footballer+
-* 1977 - [[Yoo Chae-yeong]], South Korean singer and actress+
-*[[1978]] - [[Ed Joyce]], Irish-English cricketer+
-* 1978 - [[Harry Kewell]], Australian soccer player+
-*[[1980]] - [[Fernanda Tavares]], Brazilian supermodel+
-*[[1981]] - [[Adam Lazzara]], American singer ([[Taking Back Sunday]])+
-* 1981 - [[Ashley Drane]], American actress+
-*[[1982]] - [[Billie Piper]], English singer and actress+
-* 1982 - [[Mandy Chiang]], Hong Kong singer and actress+
-*[[1984]] - [[Theresa Fu]], Hong Kong singer and actress+
-*[[1987]] - [[Tom Felton]], English actor+
-*[[1988]] - [[Bethany Dillon]], American musician+
-*[[1995]] - [[Juliette Goglia]], American actress+
-*[[1983]] - [[Ryan Scott]], English legend+
-<!--+
-Do not add yourself or people without Wikipedia articles to this list.+
-Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information.+
-Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.+
--->+
== Deaths == == Deaths ==
-*[[1253]] - [[Dogen]], Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. [[1200]]) 
-*[[1345]] - [[Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester]] (b. [[1281]]) 
-*[[1399]] - [[Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk]], English politician (b. [[1366]]) 
-*[[1520]] - [[Selim I]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1465]]) 
-*[[1531]] - [[Louise of Savoy,Queen Mother of France]] (b.1476 ) 
-*[[1554]] - [[Francisco Vasquez de Coronado]], Spanish explorer 
-*[[1566]] - [[Johannes Agricola]], German Protestant reformer (b. [[1494]]) 
-*[[1607]] - [[Alessandro Allori]], Italian painter (b. [[1535]]) 
-*[[1658]] - [[Georg Philipp Harsdorffer]], German poet (b. [[1607]]) 
-*[[1662]] - [[John Biddle (Unitarian)|John Biddle]], English theologian (b. [[1615]]) 
-*[[1692]] - [[Martha Corey]], hanged as a result of the [[Salem witch trials]] 
-*[[1703]] - [[Vincenzo Viviani]], Italian mathematician and scientist (b. [[1622]]) 
-*[[1774]] - [[Pope Clement XIV]] (b. [[1705]]) 
-*[[1776]] - [[Nathan Hale]], hanged by the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] as a [[spy]] (b. [[1755]]) 
-*[[1777]] - [[John Bartram]], American botanist (b. [[1699]]) 
-*[[1828]] - [[Shaka Zulu]], Zulu leader 
-*[[1852]] - [[William Tierney Clark]], English civil engineer (b. [[1783]]) 
-*[[1872]] - [[Vladimir Dal]], Russian lexicographer (b. [[1801]]) 
-*[[1873]] - [[Friedrich Frey-Herosé]], Swiss Federal Councilor (b. [[1801]]) 
-*[[1881]] - [[Solomon L. Spink]], U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. [[1831]]) 
-*[[1952]] - [[Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg]], first [[President of Finland]] (b. [[1865]]) 
-*[[1956]] - [[Frederick Soddy]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1877]]) 
-*[[1957]] - [[Toyoda Soemu]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1885]]) 
-*[[1961]] - [[Marion Davies]], American actress (b. [[1897]]) 
-*[[1962]] - [[Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha]], 40th [[Oveyssi]] [[Sufi]] master (b. [[1887]]) 
-*[[1969]] - [[Adolfo López Mateos]], president of Mexico (b. [[1909]]) 
-*[[1981]] - [[Harry Warren]], American composer and lyricist (b. [[1893]]) 
-*[[1987]] - [[Dan Rowan]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1922]]) 
-*[[1988]] - [[Rais Amrohvi]], Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. [[1914]]) 
-*[[1989]] - [[Irving Berlin]], American songwriter (b. [[1888]]) 
-*[[1992]] - [[Aurelio López]], Mexican baseball player (b. [[1948]]) 
-*[[1993]] - [[Maurice Abravanel]], Greek-born conductor (b. [[1903]]) 
-*[[1996]] - [[Ludmilla Chiriaeff]], Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. [[1924]]) 
-* 1996 - [[Dorothy Lamour]], American actress (b. [[1914]]) 
-*[[1999]] - [[George C. Scott]], American actor (b. [[1927]]) 
-*[[2000]] - [[Rodney Anoa'i|Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna)]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1966]]) 
-*[[2001]] - [[Isaac Stern]], Ukrainian violinist (b. [[1920]]) 
-*[[2002]] - [[Jan de Hartog]], Dutch-born writer (b. [[1914]]) 
-*[[2003]] - [[Gordon Jump]], American television actor (b. [[1932]]) 
-* 2003 - [[Hugo Young]], British journalist (b. [[1938]]) 
-*[[2004]] - [[Ray Traylor|Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man)]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1962]])  
-*[[2006]] - [[Edward Albert]], American actor (b. [[1951]]) 
-* 2006 - [[Carla Benschop]], Dutch basketball player 
-== Notes == 
-# Erich von Stroheim 
-# Maurice Barrès 
-# August 
-# Nick Cave 
-# Frederick John Kiesler 
-# Anna Karina 
-# King Sunny Adé 
-# Children of Men 
-# Benoît Poelvoorde 
-# Doug Wimbish 
-# Melanie Klein 
-# David Riesman 
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